A promoter dressed as a teddy bear rests along a retail street in Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22. AP SHANGHAI — It took less than 24 hours for all the Christmas trees ...

CHINA GROVE — In lieu of a sleigh, Santa Claus will be riding a bright red fire truck through the streets of China Grove two weekends leading up to Christmas.

MOHE, China, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Santa Claus and his elves have been busy at work turning a Christmas village in northern China into a winter wonderland for visitors. In a two-storey wooden house ...

A joke involving Santa Claus, heavy smog in China, fear of false accusations, and a lack of permits has been making the rounds on Chinese social media on Thursday.

Santa Claus is melting in one of China's coldest cities. Each year Harbin hosts a world-renowned ice festival. This year's show features an 80-foot ice sculpture of the jolly old elf. But a warm ...

Growing up in the Chinese countryside with only an elementary school education, Yang Yanjun had never heard of Christmas until she landed a job painting pink-cheeked cherubs to decorate trees.

Christmas signs being described here are merely the ones visible to all: the colors red and green (as opposed to Beijing’s usual dusty gray), the Santa Claus impersonators visiting schools, the ...

The magic of Christmas! We took our sons to meet Santa Claus for the very first time, and their reactions were absolutely priceless. See if they were naughty or nice!

China has one-upped us! In China, Santa Claus is a musician whose favorite instrument is the saxophone! Google says so. Plain old St. Nick is beginning to seem one-dimensional.

Yes, Virginia, there is an Asian Santa Claus. He's a hockey dad, speaks with a Southern drawl and was recruited for the job out of Dallas. Allan Siu knows he's a unicorn of Santa reenactors. A ...